Chapter 28 1. Mrs. Merriweather seems to compliment everyone about their performance in the pageant except Scout. What does she say to Scout? What other reason could she have for being so critical of Scout (unrelated to the play). 2. Why is Scout walking home in her costume? 3. Explain the step by step details of what happens to the children when they walk home from the pageant. 4. What does Aunt Alexandra bring Scout to put on after she returns home? Why is this significant? 5. What three things does Sheriff Tate find when he goes back to the scene of the attack?
Chapter 29 1. Who saves the children? Describe what he looks like. 2. What Scout's reaction is to seeing the man who saved them?
Chapter 30 1. At first, who does Atticus think killed the attacker? 2. Why does Atticus argue with Sheriff Tate? What does he say about his relationship with his children and his role as a father figure to them? 3. What explanation does Sheriff Heck Tate give for the attacker’s death? 4. Who is Sheriff Tate protecting with that explanation and WHY? Do you agree with what he is doing? Explain why or why not. 5. What does Scout say it would be like if they turned this man in for murder? What does she mean by this?
Chapter 31 1. Explain what Scout sees when she stands on the Radley porch. What does she realize from that new perspective? 2. Scout feels that Boo Radley has given her so much, but she feels guilty that she has not returned the favor. How is she wrong? (What have Jem and Scout given Boo?) 3. Atticus thanks Arthur for his children. Based on what he almost lost that night, do you think he regrets getting involved with the Robinson case? Use information from the text to prove your answer. 4. Reread the first and second paragraph of chapter one. Based on Scout's vague information to us, what do we now understand? Where did it all start?
1. Mrs. Merriweather seems to compliment everyone about their performance in the pageant except Scout. What does she say to Scout? What other reason could she have for being so critical of Scout (unrelated to the play).
2. Why is Scout walking home in her costume?
3. Explain the step by step details of what happens to the children when they walk home from the pageant.
4. What does Aunt Alexandra bring Scout to put on after she returns home? Why is this significant?
5. What three things does Sheriff Tate find when he goes back to the scene of the attack?
Chapter 29
1. Who saves the children? Describe what he looks like.
2. What Scout's reaction is to seeing the man who saved them?
Chapter 30
1. At first, who does Atticus think killed the attacker?
2. Why does Atticus argue with Sheriff Tate? What does he say about his relationship with his children and his role as a father figure to them?
3. What explanation does Sheriff Heck Tate give for the attacker’s death?
4. Who is Sheriff Tate protecting with that explanation and WHY? Do you agree with what he is doing? Explain why or why not.
5. What does Scout say it would be like if they turned this man in for murder? What does she mean by this?
Chapter 31
1. Explain what Scout sees when she stands on the Radley porch. What does she realize from that new perspective?
2. Scout feels that Boo Radley has given her so much, but she feels guilty that she has not returned the favor. How is she wrong? (What have Jem and Scout given Boo?)
3. Atticus thanks Arthur for his children. Based on what he almost lost that night, do you think he regrets getting involved with the Robinson case? Use information from the text to prove your answer.
4. Reread the first and second paragraph of chapter one. Based on Scout's vague information to us, what do we now understand? Where did it all start?